Sunday, February 14, 2016

Potatoes - Presidents -Print Making

In North Texas, Presidents Day reminds us that it is time to plant potatoes. So, our school farmers were busy this week. They dug holes, spaced chunks of seed potatoes just right, covered them, watered them and wished for big harvests.

Since we were honoring our American Presidents, we added a lesson on Presidents who had farming roots. Did you know that there were 17?Here is a list in the order of their Presidency:1st George Washington2nd John Adams3rd Thomas Jefferson5th James Monroe6th John Quincy Adams9th William Henry Harrison10th John Tyler11th James K. Polk16th Abraham Lincoln18th Ulysses S. Grant26th Theodore Roosevelt33rd Harry S. Truman36th Lyndon B. Johnson39th Jimmy Carter40th Ronald Reagan42nd Bill Clinton43rd George W. Bush

We also worked in some potato print making and taught the kids how to create art using potato stamps and reclaimed wood.

Perhaps one day one of our farmers will become President or a Print Maker. E I E I O.., Growing Goodness in the know.

1 comment:

Hi, there! We are beginning farmers and we are going to grow potatoes. Our first purchase is lot of metal galvanized bucket which we bought here http://apromera.com/ and now we can start. Of course, we study all the subtleties of planting potatoes and we are already going to plant the first batch.